{"id":15914,"date":"2019-09-23T00:51:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T07:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=15914"},"modified":"2019-09-23T00:51:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T07:51:23","slug":"shamans-of-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2019\/09\/23\/shamans-of-christianity\/","title":{"rendered":"Shamans of Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"

     The impetus to grant human rights to nature is well known, in both theory and in actual<\/a> implemented practice<\/a>. But this is not just some secular legal technical equivalence for the purpose of preventing pollution and the like, but a form of magic<\/a> and throwback to animism<\/a>, which is increasingly being adopted by denominations of a certain monotheistic religion: Christianity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

     Now, a seminary in Harlem is having people, in chapel, offer confession\u2014not to a priest or directly to God\u2014but to plants<\/a>, describing payer to\u2026 plants (which are described as \u201cbeings”).<\/p>\n

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Today in chapel, we confessed to plants. Together, we held our grief, joy, regret, hope, guilt and sorrow in prayer; offering them to the beings who sustain us but whose gift we too often fail to honor.<\/p>\n

What do you confess to the plants in your life? pic.twitter.com\/tEs3Vm8oU4<\/a><\/p>\n

— Union Seminary (@UnionSeminary) September 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n